Obligation of paying the Zakat

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Zakat is one of the 5 pillars of Islam. It became an obligation in the second year of Hijra. The evidence for its obligatory nature is the Holy Qur’an, Sunna and consensus of Islamic scholars. Whoever disputes its obligatory nature is an unbeliever. If someone affirms that it is obligatory but refuses to pay it, is taken from him by force.